London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain: Including Sketches of Its Environs, and a Topographical Account of the Most Remarkable Places in the Above County, Volumen2W. Wilson, 1814 |
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... Merchants , Owners , and Captains of Ships , Ship and Boat Builders , persons concerned in the Docks , as Shop - keepers , Slop sellers , & c . , Sailors , Water- men , and others who derive employment from maritime pursuits . The ...
... Merchants , Owners , and Captains of Ships , Ship and Boat Builders , persons concerned in the Docks , as Shop - keepers , Slop sellers , & c . , Sailors , Water- men , and others who derive employment from maritime pursuits . The ...
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... merchants , and famous for its great stores of provisions , & c . though not a colony . * Dr. Stukeley , in the first volume of his Itinerarium Curiosum , con- jectures that the ground - plot of ancient London was compre- hended within ...
... merchants , and famous for its great stores of provisions , & c . though not a colony . * Dr. Stukeley , in the first volume of his Itinerarium Curiosum , con- jectures that the ground - plot of ancient London was compre- hended within ...
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... Merchants ; for it is upon record that one Geoffrey Martel , in the reign of Henry the Second , sold a piece of land , with a stone house , in London . † In this reign , likewise , the new London Bridge was began with stone ; and in ...
... Merchants ; for it is upon record that one Geoffrey Martel , in the reign of Henry the Second , sold a piece of land , with a stone house , in London . † In this reign , likewise , the new London Bridge was began with stone ; and in ...
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... Merchants , of London , purchased for 200 marks an exemption from the Quinzieme , which was a duty payable by every Merchant , whether native or foreigner . In the same reign , between the years 1211 and 1213 , the City ditch was first ...
... Merchants , of London , purchased for 200 marks an exemption from the Quinzieme , which was a duty payable by every Merchant , whether native or foreigner . In the same reign , between the years 1211 and 1213 , the City ditch was first ...
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... Merchants , who had been long in the habit of importing them , opened shops in Cheapside , St. Lawrence , Jewry , and the Old Jewry ; ' and these , ' next to to those of the Goldsmiths , are reputed to have been the most splendid in ...
... Merchants , who had been long in the habit of importing them , opened shops in Cheapside , St. Lawrence , Jewry , and the Old Jewry ; ' and these , ' next to to those of the Goldsmiths , are reputed to have been the most splendid in ...
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Página 281 - ... manner which his Virtues deserved : • He received the Thanks of both Houses of the British and Irish Parliaments For his Eminent Services rendered to his Country and to Mankind. Our National Prisons and Hospitals, Improved upon the Suggestions of his Wisdom, Bear Testimony to the solidity of his Judgment And to the Estimation in which he was held In Every Part of the Civilised World, Which he traversed to reduce the sum of Human Misery. From the Throne to the Dungeon his Name was mentioned...
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Página 294 - Bernini's design of the Louvre I would have given my skin for ; but the old reserved Italian gave me but a few minutes' view ; it was five little designs on paper, for which he hath received as many thousand pistoles.
Página 299 - A'unc me jiibtt fortuna expediting philosophari; in which recess, free from worldly affairs, he passed the greatest part of the five last following years of his life, in contemplation and studies, and principally in the consolation of the Holy Scriptures; cheerful in solitude, and as well pleased to die in the shade as in the light.
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Página 723 - ... and undaunted courage : and, notwithstanding he had at this time neither read books, nor conversed with men capable of giving him much instruction in the military art, all the resources which he employed in the defence of Arcot, were such as are dictated by the best masters in the science of war.
Página 222 - ... a kind of still roar or loud whisper. It is the great exchange of all discourse, and no business whatsoever but is here stirring and afoot. It is the synod of all pates politic, jointed and laid together in most serious posture, and they are not half so busy at the Parliament.
Página 738 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses...
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